The work of Song Chinese painter Muqi…

The work of Song Chinese painter Muqi is the principal influence on Soami’s soft, mist-filled ink landscapes, as in Landscapes of the Four Seasons.

Soami, who, like his father, Geiami, and his grandfather Noami, had served the Ashikaga shoguns as art curator, painter, garden designer, and master of the tea ceremony, dies in 1525.